Blouse



Feb. 2, 1932. H. M. GRIFENHAGEN BLOUSE Filed Dec. 10, 1928 m T N E V N FEN HAGEN HERBERT M. GR!

ATTORNEY Patented Feb, 2, 1932 s'm'rns HERBERT M. GRIFENHAGEN, NYORK, N. Y.

BLOUSE Application filed December 10, 1928. Serial No. 324,931..

- This invention relates to improvements in the construction of a weather shirt or blouse and has reference particularly to a shield ar- ,ranged in the V-neck of the shirt.

v The object of my invention is to provide a shield of this character wherein the-latter maybe-worn closed with a'coliar or open without a collar.

A further object of this invention is to H) provide a shield for a shirt front which is open along thefront and which is attached to the shirt except at its lower end, thus leaving an opening through which the depending ends of the Wearers necktie are inserted.

' Briefly the present invention comprises a type of shirt or blouse which may be worn inside or outside the trousers and with or without the elastic waist band often used in Weather shirts of this character.

m. I accomplish these objects by means of the garment illustratively exemplified in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure. 1 is a perspective view of my improved shirt; Figure 2 is a front View of the shirt and shield closed; and Figure 3 is a similar view showing the shield open.

Referring to the drawings, 10 denotes a shirt or blouse, preferably of the type worn outside the trousers, and 11 a shield arranged 11 inside the front opening of the shirt 10. The front opening of the shirt is straight at its lower end in the manner common to substantially all shirts of this character, one side thereof having simply been brought over 3 the other is attached thereto by buttons 12.

At a point well below the neck opening the sides of the point opening separate to form a V-neck 13. The edges 14: of the material along the- V-neck are piped or bound to provide a finish.

The shield 11 is triangular in shape and is composed of two parts divided along a of theV-opening 13 and from the lower ends of the stitching 16the shield is. free of the shirt proper and merely hangs downwardly. This unattached portion'of the shirt 10 and shield 11 affords space through which the b5 lower ends of the necktie 17 may project inside the front of the shirt, as illustratively exemplified in Figure 1.

A suitable neck or collar band 18 is provided at the upper end of the. shield and neck opening in the shirt 10. A collar 19.is attached to the collar band 18 in the usual manner-if the shield is to be worn closed as shown in Figures 1 and 2, but if th shield is to be worn open as illustrated in Figure 3, the 6 collar band 18 at each side folds over the front of the shirt and forms a relatively deep V-shaped front openin in the shield.

It will be understooc, of course, that the shield may be designed of various shapes and 7 may further be made of a material entirely difi'erent from that of which the shirt proper is made. i

Havingnow described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: a

In combination, an open front shirt having the upper portion of said opening V-shaped, an open front V-shaped shield comprising two triangular pieces disposed over the V- shapedv opening on the inside of the shirt, said shield projecting beyond the sides of the ll-shaped opening and having rows of stitching attaching the opposite sides of both pieces to the body of the shirt along lines extending to points short ofthe apex of the sides of the V-shaped openingto leave an opening into the shirt.

In testimony whereof he has aihxed his signature. 3

HERBERT GRIFENHAGEN. 

